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Subject: Re: Can't compile on Alpha..please help!
In-Reply-To: <38277333.1d6.0@flashmail.com> from "Mark L. Holloway" at "Nov 8, 1999 05:04:51 pm"
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:07:46 -0700 (MST)
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From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
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Mark L. Holloway wrote...
> This is desperate.. So I've installed FreeBSD 3.3 Release, snaged the X11 for
> FreeBSD Alpha from relay.nuxi.com, and went to install the Blackbox window manager.
>  This is what happens (I've tried it through ports and compiling the source
> myself):
> 
> /configure
> 
> checking for BSD comaptible install.../us/bin/install -c 
> checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created
> file is older than distributed files!
> 
> What the heck does this mean and how do I fix it? Sorry for the over tone, but
> this blows.. I *JUST* finished my FreeBSD installation and haven't even had
> time to screw anything up! Seriously, I may have done something (but I really
> don't know what)...help!?!?  

I'd hardly call that a "desperate" problem.

In any case, if a newly created file is older than a file distributed with
the window manager, doesn't it point to the possibility that the date/time
is set wrong on your machine?

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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